Comics as part of your identity

Ratbert · Post by **Ratbert** » Mon Sep 13, 2004 5:08 pm

As one or two of you probably know, my comic's been down for about a month, right in the middle of the occasional storyline. You know, even though I didn't really want to do it (not that I could at that time), doesn't it feel like you're just not as creative? Like you've lost part of your identity? Strange, considering I never thought too highly of my comic in the first place.

Anyone else feel the same way?

McDuffies · Post by **McDuffies** » Mon Sep 13, 2004 5:14 pm

I just feel like I'm repeating the same jokes in mcDuffies all over again. Luckily, it relies on stories so much, and in that department I'm actually getting better.
But as I see, it happens to a lot of comics. Lots of popular comics. It's sad to see one of your fave comic kind of spent out, with no intention to go toward the less known paths... I don't think I'm the only one who ever felt this way.

Dalis · Post by **Dalis** » Mon Sep 13, 2004 5:17 pm

Keep in mind as well though, that sometimes, things that are not interesting to you, or over done to you, may not seem like it to others.

Example: Traveling through asian
Me: BORING
Everyone else: Oooo temples! Animals! Rare flowers! OOOO!!!!

Same idea applies to one's own webcomics, in my opinion.

Luprand · Post by **Luprand** » Mon Sep 13, 2004 5:20 pm

Traveling through Asians ...

Me: Ugh! Gross!

Med Student: Wow! Liver! Spleen! Pancreas! OOOOoo!

--Sij

Ratbert · Post by **Ratbert** » Mon Sep 13, 2004 5:24 pm

Actually, what I was saying is when you're not doing your comic that you don't feel that creative. You know, like you might be a funny guy or a good artist, but you're not showing for it, right? That's what I was getting at.

SuperSnob · Post by **SuperSnob** » Mon Sep 13, 2004 5:35 pm

Seems to me like I've always gotta be drawing a comic of some kind. I finished the second issue of These Days a few weeks ago and for days afterward I was completely devoid of inspiration for drawing anything but comic pages. (As it is, I still haven't started the third issue because we haven't finalised the script yet....) So, sometimes all I feel like drawing is comic pages, which I guess is okay considering I feel that some of my best drawings come from those pages... :b

Toxic · Post by **Toxic** » Mon Sep 13, 2004 5:49 pm

That reminds me...

Sometimes I just can't draw my comic. I'll be drawing my characters and they'll look all weird and stuff, and I'll start to panic and think I've lost all my drawing skills. Then it's usually back the next day.

Sometimes I feel like I'm losing my writing skills to. "Uh oh, I'm not cynical enough. I should watch 'Ghost World' again."

Of course, when it comes to writing I have a huge 5 subject notebook I fill with any random idea I get during the day, which usually helps.

Xmung · Post by **Xmung** » Mon Sep 13, 2004 8:03 pm

i find taking more than a week away from the drawing board or writing table leaves me feeling a bit out of sorts...

Justinpie · Post by **Justinpie** » Mon Sep 13, 2004 8:08 pm

I'm sort of addicted to making webcomics. It's very sad, the medical bills are getting expensive.

I have a Paypal button.

Dalis · Post by **Dalis** » Mon Sep 13, 2004 9:20 pm

Luprand wrote:Traveling through Asians ...

Me: Ugh! Gross!

Med Student: Wow! Liver! Spleen! Pancreas! OOOOoo!

--Sij

Oh wow... now that's a typo I'm always going to regret

Anycase...

From what it seems is... your not satisfied with not meeting up with the standard you've placed upon yourself?

Dr.Otto · Post by **Dr.Otto** » Mon Sep 13, 2004 9:50 pm

---I hate missing even a single update given the story-based format of PCC; I'd likely go insane if I missed an entire month.

Pockybot · Post by **Pockybot** » Mon Sep 13, 2004 11:26 pm

My comic has become a bit split these days, almost like there are two different strips going on. One is very non canon, very 'wtf'...this can be me(no tmy character) going to the grocery store or a club, or just strange one shots...and then the other is a not very well thought out storyline Im trying to end...all so I can finally get going on a true storyline and newer style I hope to debut soon. *whew* I am well known for missing updates...tho somehow I usually have 2-3 strips a week.

Maxim Kovalenko · Post by **Maxim Kovalenko** » Tue Sep 14, 2004 12:01 am

I've gotten addicted to mine definitely....

I feel like my brain is off when I'm notworking on it at times. Sigh...the bad part of the whole thing is I have just realized how huge this thing is going to be. Looks like I'm trapped with it for a while

Birdie · Post by **Birdie** » Tue Sep 14, 2004 1:41 am

I'm kinda lucky for the fact that I have two creative endeavors, my comic and my radio show. So even though right now I haven't drawn a comic for 2 weeks, I'm still able to do something "creative" in planning my show's playlist, working on it's website and promoting it as well (not that I'm really trying to plug it now...). But I was writing little snippets for my comic this weekend and after reading through my archive I was inspired to start writing new comics this week that I can start doing for October. So now I get to kind of flip-flop between two creative outlets.

Too bad you can't update your comic as much, I've really been enjoying it the times it does update.

EMH · Post by **EMH** » Tue Sep 14, 2004 3:45 am

Ratbert wrote:Like you've lost part of your identity? [...]
Anyone else feel the same way?

Dr.Otto wrote:I'd likely go insane if I missed an entire month.

Yes.

I went insane after two weeks, and now I'm a burned out wreck of a man.

Bekka · Post by **Bekka** » Tue Sep 14, 2004 5:16 am

The comic has become a huge chunk of my thoughts. I used to panic if I didn't have anything to read when I was on a train, now I just leave the book in the handbag because I am thinking about future strips. What's worse, I think about them even when people are talking to me and my interest drops a bit.

McDuffies · Post by **McDuffies** » Tue Sep 14, 2004 5:36 am

SuperSnob wrote:Seems to me like I've always gotta be drawing a comic of some kind. I finished the second issue of These Days a few weeks ago and for days afterward I was completely devoid of inspiration for drawing anything but comic pages. (As it is, I still haven't started the third issue because we haven't finalised the script yet....) So, sometimes all I feel like drawing is comic pages, which I guess is okay considering I feel that some of my best drawings come from those pages... :b

I do that too. I'm two storylines ahead on mcDuffies, one issue ahead on LWK. Currently I'm idle and slowly finishing scripts for next episodes.

Vorticus · Post by **Vorticus** » Tue Sep 14, 2004 8:41 am

I tend to go in spurts. I'll come up with an idea, then spend a month getting to it all the while running into other ideas that hadn't occured to me before.

Ida · Post by **Ida** » Tue Sep 14, 2004 11:38 am

TOXIC AVENGER! wrote: Sometimes I just can't draw my comic. I'll be drawing my characters and they'll look all weird and stuff, and I'll start to panic and think I've lost all my drawing skills. Then it's usually back the next day.

Seconded! I'm only just getting into a schedule of acually doing a page every week, but I'm already becoming addicted to it.

Coyotzin · Post by **Coyotzin** » Tue Sep 14, 2004 4:18 pm

I'm just recovering from a long rut where I missed updating for a month at a time. It was a difficult episode of my life professionally speaking. Like supernerdcore, I have other avenues to vent my creativity so I didn't feel I was incomplete of sorts.

But I do keep thinking about my comic's story all the time. Luckily, my GF is just as crazy as I am and she helps me vent a lot (she cowrites with me the prose side stories based my comic's secondary characters).

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